TWeaK

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[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's right, the UK has peacocks in its trees instead of turkeys.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)

In other parts of the world "turkeys voting for Christmas" is a common saying.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

More like "Apple only fixes flaws when they're openly exploited".

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

We need the full image or video

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Non-Google AMP link: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-67750538

Edit: lol even that one loads content from ampproject.org, but at least the article text comes through if it's blocked.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

I'm all for phasing that 'r' out.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago

Your phone relies on trigonometry.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The UK just had a big article revealing that their Prevent database was being shared with border control (edit: link). The Prevent database covers people who have not committed any crime but have shown some indication of potentially becoming radicalised towards terrorirsm or towards some other crime. The vast majority are labelled "no further action" but still have been shared with customs. Some were children as young as 6 and 4.

You absolutely don't need to do anything wrong to get on a list. Hell, just browsing the internet gets you put on all sorts of lists.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 14 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Not quite lol Leopards Ate My Face is more Turkeys Voting for Christmas, where someone aligns with someone else in spite of the person they're aligning with clearly not having their interests at heart. Like the vast majority of Trump supporters, or LGBTQ hexbear users supporting Putin.

This is just plain hypocrisy, like "the only moral abortion is my abortion".

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee -2 points 2 years ago

It is a bullshit fake restriction because it doesn't even exist. However, it's something of a grey area that, up until IA poked the hornets nest, allowed a bit of wiggle room to get away with breaking copyright law.

Now a judge has ruled that managing one digital copy per physical copy is explicitly against the law as written. They aren't even trying any sort of fair use argument, they're basically just saying "we do public good" but don't actually explain how that means anything in law.

Meanwhile, the lawyers get paid, and IA goes on fundraising campaigns.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Publishers absolutely were in the wrong, morally, but my point is that IA stepped out of the legal grey area and into what was completely wrong in law. Then, they (and apparently their argument still does) rely on a judge basically making the law up, and in doing so left no real option for the judge but to rule against them. Now, the grey area isn't grey anymore, it's explicitly prohibited.

If IA hadn't broken the one digital per physical copy rule, or if they'd settled out of court or done anything sensible with their lawsuit, they wouldn't have made the law worse.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 100 points 2 years ago (8 children)

According to an archived version of his campaign website, Cassidy pushed for a 10-year prison sentence for anyone who destroys a statue in his own state.

I'm sure he expects exactly the same punishment for himself.

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